Gloria Bardwell's Photo Scrapbook | Played by Judith Chapman

Actress History: Judith Chapman (2005-present)
Joan Van Ark (2004-2005)

Other Names: Gloria Simmons (maiden name)
Gloria Simmons Fisher Abbott Bardwell Bardwell (married name)

Occupation: Has stock in Jabot Cosmetics
Former Receptionist for Jabot Cosmetics
Former Sales person at Fenmore's Department Store
Former Barista at Crimson Lights Coffee House
Former Vice President of Creative Affairs for Jabot Cosmetics
Former Fashion Consultant for Jabot Cosmetics
Former waitress in Detroit

Resides at: Abbott Mansion Pool house

Spouse: Jeffrey Bardwell (June 30, 2008-present)

Past Marriages:

1. Tom Fisher (divorced; deceased)
2. John Abbott (widowed)
3. William Bardwell (widowed)
4. Jeffrey Bardwell (divorced; first time)

Children: Michael Baldwin (son with Lowell Baldwin)
Kevin Fisher (son with Tom)

Relatives: Lauren Fenmore Baldwin (daughter-in-law)
Fenmore Baldwin (grandson)

Friends: Katherine Chancellor

Enemies: Jill Foster Abbott, Jeffrey Bardwell

Her reputation in town:Gold-digging pariah who will do anything for her sons, and use her sons to get anything she wants.

Most memorable scenes: Jack throwing Gloria and Kevin out of the Abbott Mansion after John's funeral

Unforgettable lines:

Defining episodes: Going to Jack's on New Years Eve 2007 to give him the news that John's handwriting analysis was proven that the letter was written by John. Trying to seduce Jeffrey while looking for evidence in his room at GCAC.



Young and Restless character history:

Gloria is the widow of cosmetics tycoon John Abbott, as well as the widow of lawyer William Bardwell. (Coincidentally, she is married to William's twin brother Jeffrey as of January 2008.) She is also the mother of half-brothers Michael Baldwin and Kevin Fisher.

In the beginning Gloria married her husbands John Abbott and William Bardwell for their money, but eventually developed real feelings for both of her rich husbands. Her actions have got her in a lot of trouble, having to get her two sons Michael and Kevin to get her out of the trouble. But Gloria keeps getting her self back into trouble.

Gloria Fisher moved to Genoa City from Detroit in 2004, to spend some time with her sons Kevin and Michael. Shortly after arriving in town, she met and began dating John Abbott, the wealthy founder of Jabot Cosmetics; the two were soon married, much to the concern of John's daughter, Ashley, who suspected her new stepmother was a gold-digger, and became obsessed with breaking up her father's marriage. Ashley began digging into Gloria's past, and eventually discovered that Gloria had indeed not been entirely honest with John. She made the shocking discovery - that Gloria was the mother of Kevin Fisher, who had tried to kill John's granddaughter and her niece, Colleen, and also Michael Baldwin, the lawyer who had helped Victor Newman to send Jabot into bankruptcy. John eventually forgave Gloria for not revealing her past; he also came to forgive Kevin (who would later save John's life, after a fall) and Michael, both of whom came to regard John as more of a father figure than their own biological fathers.

When Gloria's abusive ex-husband, Tom Fisher, returned to town, he began to blackmail Gloria (paying him not to reveal that they were still legally married). When John learned all of this, he shot Tom dead, before having a heartattack himself.
John survived, but couldn't remember shooting Tom. For fear that he would have another attack if he remembered, Ashley covered for him, pleading guilty to Tom's murder. John eventually recalled the night of the shooting, and came forward that it was he, not his daughter, who shot Tom. He was sentenced to seven years in prison, but before being sentenced, John, knowing of Jack and Ashley's feelings about Gloria, gave her his Jabot proxy.

Throughout Gloria and John's "marriage", Jack and Ashley were never fond of her, which caused Gloria to go out of her way to prove herself a worthy member of the Jabot company. She went so far as to poison a batch of a new facial cream that Ashley had developed, GloAgain, so she could later "discover" the faulty product and save the company. This backfired when samples of GloAgain were sent out before Gloria could implement her plan and caused injuries to various people (including Abby Carlton, who ended up in the hospital). The death of a woman named Emma Gibson, which appeared to be related to her exposure to the tainted GloAgain, led to a lawsuit which hurt Jabot and caused Jack to be fired (though it later was determined the death might have been from other causes, unrelated to Jabot). Other than Kevin and Michael (who both kept their mother's secret), no one has learned of Gloria's part in this.

In August 2006, Michael succeeded in getting the Wisconsin Governor to commute John's sentence to time served (allowing him to get out of prison), but tragically, before he could be released, he suffered a massive stroke, and was admitted to Memorial Hospital. Uncontrolled bleeding in his brain caused John to slip into a coma from which he would not reemerge. His neurologist informed the Abbotts of a DNR order John had previously signed. Gloria and Jack fought bitterly over this, Jack wanting to honor his father's wishes, and Gloria wanting to keep John on life support in the hope that he could somehow be revived. Eventually Gloria relented, and John was allowed to die. However, John's death did not ease the animosity between Gloria and John's children. The battle between Gloria and John's children, especially Jack, has escalated, mainly with the fact that Gloria and her family are slated to receive half of John's estate.

The only sibling that she really has little, if any, animosity with, was Jack's youngest sister, Traci, and this is because of her work as a writer and that she lives in New York, most of the time, and isn't always aware of what is going on with her family.

To add more insult to injury, it was discovered that John's attorney, due to health problems, hadn't filed the marriage license for John and Gloria, revealing that she and John were not legally married. What's worse, a handwritten will turned up, basically leaving all of John's assets with his children; leaving Gloria and her family without a cent. A judge ruled that the second will was valid, and as such, Gloria as left disinherited.

However, Katherine Chancellor and Jill Abbott had promoted Gloria as Jabot's vice president of Creative Affairs, as she has been casting more than a casual eye on district attorney William Bardwell who had recently inherited a fortune due to his uncle's death. This caused unexpected trouble between her and Jill, who was also enamored of Mr. Bardwell. Although she claimed that she would always love John, she quickly shed her widow's weeds and was already on her way to her next conquest.

Gloria eventually married William, who then discovered the truth about Gloria and the face cream. However, he then suffered a stroke, and was taken to hospital. After holding him against his will and eventually admitting she would turn herself in (due to Will finding out about the tainted Glo-Again face cream), William Bardwell succumb to his stroke and died July 18, 2007. After William died he inherited his uncle's money, fifty million dollars, and the money went to Gloria, William's then-wife.

Gloria planned a remembrance party for William, where his identical twin brother Jeffrey arrived. Jeffrey later presented Gloria with a box of mementos that William sent him before he died. The box also contained a jar of the contaminated face cream. Gloria then became convinced that Jeffrey knew of her crime.

While being suspicious of Jeffrey, Gloria couldn't resist getting even with Jack for all the pain he caused her so she and Kevin released video footage of Jack admitting he illegally owned Jabot after the cream contamination. Michael and Lauren were furious after learning of this and Jack, Katherine, and Jill all became suspicious of Gloria and Kevin's involvement. Both Gloria and Jill decided to get revenge on Jack by testifying against him at his Senate hearing. Once she received a letter written to her by John before he died, Gloria read it to the Senate committee and it was revealed that Jack had indeed tricked his father into changing the will.

Gloria reveled in her newfound wealth with both John and William's money and continued her game of cat-and-mouse with Jeffrey. After convincing him to give her the cream as a remembrance of William, Gloria discovered that it was a fake. She then decided to "semi-seduce" him in an effort to get close enough to get the real cream. However, once inside his hotel room, she discovered an old letter from William to Jeffrey say "Don't let her get away with it." With the help of an excuse from Kevin, she left but became even more worried. To get Jeff's suspicions off of her she decided to badmouth Jill and have him focus on her as the culprit. Jeffery then tested the cream on himself and was burned himself, resulting in him confronting Gloria as the true culprit. Gloria tried to play it off, but Jeffrey wasn't convinced. He then blackmailed Gloria into agreeing to marry him or he would turn her in to the police.

He became even more anxious once he discovered she would also be getting her inheritance from John Abbott. In order to rid herself of Jeffrey, Gloria tried several attempts, such as digging up dirt on him, paying him off, and trying to turn all her dollars into jewelry that would be hidden. All of these attepmts failed as Jeff was always one step ahead, partly because he was having Gloria followed.

Gloria then hatched another plan to rid of Jeffrey, by framing Jeffrey for her attempted murder--and, to that end, she finally agreed to marry him. They eloped and were married in Las Vegas. Gloria then decided to stage her "death" in a huge mansion: the Abbott house, which she decided to take from Jack. After the judge declared that she had the right to move in, Jack and Sharon refused to leave. However, Gloria moved in anyway with an army load of hideous furniture and various annoying moves to drive the out. Unbeknowst to Gloria, Jeffrey had implanted a spy camera in the mansion and quickly discovered her and Kevin's plot to frame him. Meanwhile, Jack and Sharon became increasingly suspicious of their "marriage." As their various games continued, Jeff began to side with Jack and Sharon in wanting him and Gloria to move out on the agreement that they sell their portion. They then hired an actor look-alike of John named Alistair to scare Gloria out of the house. Gloria actually believed John's spirit was huanting her until Lauren saw him also. It wasn't long before Michael figured out what the three were up to and threatened to sue them due to Lauren's falling down the stairs after she was frightened by the fake John. Jack and Sharon then gave up the battle and gave Gloria the mansion. Unfortunately for Gloria, her sons had grown tired of all her schemes and decided not to help her anymore until she acted more mature. Meanwhile, to her chagrin, Gloria began developing real feelings for Jeffrey, but that was quickly interrupted when his Korean girlfriend Kyon came to town and locked Gloria in the wine cellar of the Abbott house while she attempted to get Jeffrey back. Gloria was then rescued by Allistair and threw Jeffrey out of the house saying she never wanted to see him again. Realizing that she was all alone, Gloria decided to let go and give Jack and Sharon back the house and made amends with her sons. Everyone was suspicious of her sudden change of heart, especially when she insisted Michael drop his suit against Jack for Lauren falling down the stairs. Meanwhile, she continued to struggle with her feelings for Jeffrey by trying to make him jealous while flirting with Alistair.

Gloria, influenced by Jana and her beliefs in karma, decided to turn her life around and gave the mansion back to Jack. Gloria and Jeff began to realize they really were actually attracted to each other even after all their feuding and blackmailing. They had one hot night together, but misunderstandings and refusal to admit they cared led to Jeffrey filing for divorce and asking for half her net worth as a settlement. Meanwhile Gloria was still trying to offset her karma and made legal arrangements to donate half her assets to charity as the Marksalogria Charitable Foundation (which is an algorithm for meaning Gloria's Karma). So if Jeff received the other half in their divorce settlement, and Gloria was left penniless! Even her diamond stash turned out to be fake.

The Fishers were celebrating Michael's first Father's Day, when Michael insisted Gloria tell him more about his own father, Lowell Baldwin. The way Gloria tells it, she was a naive 15 year old living in Detroit when she met the handsome and charismatic Lowell in Ann Arbor where he was attending college on scholarship at the University of Michigan. Michael had been reading the remains of his grandmother's diary, and recalled her disappointment at Lowell's disinterest in his education after falling for "that young Detroit girl". Gloria added that Lowell dropped out of college and became a hippie driving a school bus for a living, getting into drugs and booze. Gloria discovered she was pregnant with Michael about the time Lowell got drafted and fled to Canada. Rather than raise an infant in a commune, she let him go alone and never saw him again. She guiltily admitted that they had never been married after all. Thanks to Paul's investigation, Paul located a River Baldwin wanted for murder after setting up a bombing of a bank as a leader with the 60's terrorist group The Weatherman. He had the same social security number as Lowell, and was also born in New Orleans. Records also showed that a Gloria Simmons got him out on bail. Gloria responded to Michael's confrontation that Lowell used her, convinced her he was innocent, and disappeared after she bailed him out, leaving her and Michael. Michael is now having second thoughts about finding his long lost father.


Influenced by his concience in the form of John again, Jack relented and allowed Gloria to live in the Abbott pool house. After trying her hand and failing at waitressing at Crimson Lights and sales clerking for Lauren at the Glow By Jabot Boutique, she begged Kay for her job back and was given the Jabot Receptionist job instead. When Jeffrey realized how low Gloria had sunk, he made another attempt to reconcile with no more playing tricks and misunderstandings. After one hot night together, Gloria accused him of somehow stealing her diamonds, (which he probably did) and Jeff is mad at her again. Jill came on hot & heavy to Jeff seducing him in her office chair, but it wasn't long before he finally realized that the woman he wanted was Gloria. Jeff broke it off with Jill, and Jill took it out on the new receptionist Gloria, treating her like a slave. Jeff returned to Gloria and asked to start over together. Gloria went along with it half-heartedly until they made love again. Then Jeff coaxed her to his place, showed her 50 million in cash to frolic in, asked her to remarry him, and they eloped to Las Vegas with a wedding featuring Little Richard.

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